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Wednesday, 9 January 2013

postheadericon 23/03/2007 Australian first Kurdish Film Festival - Part 1

23/03/2007 Australian first Kurdish Film Festival - Part 1 Video Clips. Duration : 10.07 Mins.


special thanks to Dr. kamal / twana nwri /devrim cilik / Faiq aziz / institute for kurdish study in Australia. twana nwri Kurdish Cinema: In Search of Cultural Identity By Dr Muhammad Kamal. Senior Lecturer, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne The Kurds make the largest ethnic community in the Middle East without a state of their own. Their history is a chain of unsuccessful uprisings for independence. It tells about genocide, forcible assimilation, deportation and life in exile. After the defeat of the Ottomans in 1918, the British forces occupied almost all of present day Middle East. Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Point Program for World Peace (point 12) stated that non-Turkish minorities of the Ottoman Empire should be 'assured of an absolute unmolested opportunity of autonomous development.' The Treaty of Sevres signed in August 1920 gave a great hope to the Kurds and brought them closer to statehood. But the peace conference at Lausanne in November 1922, which was finalized in treaty in July 1923 disappointed the Kurdish delegation. The defeated Turkey secured a position to impose demands on the conference and categorically rejected the recognition of the national rights of the Kurds. The Allies satisfied with their own gains were happy to please Turkey for two reasons; first, Mustafa Kamal who emerged as a leader advocated the idea of westernizing Turkey and second the Allies wanted from Turkey to block the influence of Soviet Marxism in the region. In March ...

Saturday, 22 December 2012

postheadericon Croats and Serbs clash at Australian Open

Croats and Serbs clash at Australian Open Tube. Duration : 2.87 Mins.


Ethnic conflict in Australia. "ONE OF the nation's biggest international sporting events endured its blackest day yesterday as Serbs, Croats and Greeks clashed at the Australian Open tennis and threatened further ethnic warfare as the grand slam event continues. More trouble could erupt today, with Ilia Bozoljac of Serbia and Marin Cilic of Croatia due to play each other, but Tennis Australia and Victorian police say they have "contingency plans" to stop a repeat of yesterday's clashes involving about 150 people on the first day of competition at Melbourne Park." www.smh.com.au